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The IBM 2014 Tech Trends report from developerWorks and the IBM Center for Applied Insights is based on a survey of more than 1,400 IT and business decision makers who are determining when, where and how their organizations adopt mobile, analytics, cloud

Join Jim Claussen, Dan Hauenstein, and Jeff Lo on three part series on the Tech Trends results. Hear first hand how Tech Trends insights are transforming IBM business, our own strategies, and how they impact our clients and the industries they are in. Part 1: Jim's insights on Tech Trends results Click here to see Jim's blog Part 2: Dan Hauenstein speaks to the skills gaps identified in the Tech Trends Study Part 3: Jeff Lo compares and contrasts industry-specific adoption and challenges Jim is the manager of Industry... [More]

You may be a social magnet in your private life, but how socially adept are you in the business world? Doug Heintzman, Director of IBM Collaboration Solutions, provides the scoop on what people should know about social skills needed in business today, considerations when developing those skills, and the necessity for young professionals entering the workforce to understand key differences between personal and professional use of social spaces. Any stories you’d care to share about social business blunders you’ve observed or experienced?

By now, we hope you’ve had a chance to check out the new Tech Trends report: Fast track to the future (PDF, 2MB) and interactive infographic . There was so much data that we weren’t able to talk about all of it in the paper. If you love crunching numbers, you may want to roll up your sleeves, download the survey source data (SPSS, 123KB), and get busy analyzing and visualizing to see what further insights you may be able to reveal. To whet your appetite, here are some more detailed, behind-the-paper results. Figure 1 shows the detailed... [More]